If you enjoyed reading The Black Mile, I would appreciate it if you would help others to enjoy this book, too.

Lend it. This e-book is lending-enabled, so please, share it with a friend.

Recommend it. Please help other readers find this book by recommending it to friends, readers’ groups and discussion boards.

Review it. Please tell other readers why you liked this book by reviewing it at Amazon or Goodreads. If you do write a review, please send me an email at markjdawson@me.com so I can thank you with a personal email.

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The right of Mark Dawson to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

Lynx Lynx, what you are seeing the the pre-ebook boilerplate from the publisher. There is a reason behind every line, but it would take a page to explain them all...And most of them only applied to p-pooks...

The "lending enabled" wording means that you are allowed to loan out your kindle book once to someone for two weeks. The publisher has allowed this, but it is only once per book. So you are lending with the publisher's permission, but you cannot lend out again, or even"give it away". Does this clear it up?

The author is saying you cangive the ebook to others to read, but it's connection (the author and the book) to Soho Noir is unclear to me.

This is where you've got confused.

The author is NOT saying you can give the ebook to others. The author IS saying that you can use the lending scheme Amazon implement to loan the book to someone else (once), and that the author would be pleased if you used this facility.

As an aside, even if the author said they were happy for readers to give copies of the ebook to anyone they like, this might still not be sufficient for you to be allowed to do so.

If the author's contract with the publisher gives the publisher exclusive rights to publish and distribute the book, the author does not have the ability to grant such permission until the contract expires.

As someone who does not own a Kindle, but gets ebooks from Amazon, I read the author's top statement as you can lend this ebook out without restriction.

If it was intended to mean something different then it should have stated so.

What could be clearer than "Lend it. This e-book is lending-enabled, so please, share it with a friend.

It doesn't say that you can share the book with everyone you know and anyone else you fancy... "...a friend." has a meaning as printed and it isn't multiple friends... just as "...lending-enabled..." has a specific meaning as mentioned above - one person for a fortnight...

What could be clearer than "Lend it. This e-book is lending-enabled, so please, share it with a friend.

It doesn't say that you can share the book with everyone you know and anyone else you fancy... "...a friend." has a meaning as printed and it isn't multiple friends... just as "...lending-enabled..." has a specific meaning as mentioned above - one person for a fortnight...

I'm just looking down my friends listing now for the person named 'a' friend

Gosh so the various lending and copyright info related to Amazon Prime stuff eh. Mmmm, no wonder it didn't make sense to me

Australians are treated quite poorly by Amazon - they don't give us our own site, we have to use the US site where everything is stated in USD, including at the final checkout. Rude to say the least.

As to Amazon Prime - it just aint worth it. Here's one review that says most of all you need to know (if you're an Australian) and the title says it all:
“Amazon Prime: What They Don’t Tell You, Or How To Alienate International Customers”